'Aftertaste' appears to be an attempt by Helmet to recapture their earlier raw heavy sound. It has some excellent songs on here and overall is probably better then 'Betty'.
Sadly most of the critics savaged this album when it came out and I think maybe they were just reacting to market over-saturation as Helmet had released quite a few albums in like 5 -7 years by this time.
Also many critics blame Helmet for the rise of 'nu-metal' which is total non-sense! Paige Hamilton doesn't even really rap and it seems to me that the only real nu-metal band that Helmet really influenced was Deftones, and they aren't even really all that nu-metalish but more of a Heavy Alt-Rock / Art Rock hybrid even if they do hang out with Korn and what not.
Most of this non-sense came about because Helmet was on that 'Judgement Night' soundtrack, but both Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Sonic Youth were on there and they are not blamed for the rise of nu-metal!!!!
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